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Thirty-Seven

Author: J.U. Faruck
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-18 17:00:44

“I need you to call Reed.”Tea said, holding her phone out in front of me.

My eyes dipped to the device. It was a few years old and had seen better days, but Tea was kind of a cheapskate when it came to things like that. I knew she worked her ass off just to afford to eat, and I felt for her…

But only a little.

We’d both been raised in similar situations: with single moms struggling to pay the bills. But where her mom struggled because she was a teacher and they didn’t make shit, my mom had struggled because she’d been sick for years.

She managed to work enough to keep her job, even in the worst of times, and her job provided good enough insurance to pay most of her medical bills. And when she passed away a few weeks before my high school graduation, I’d inherited the home she had paid off before I was even born.

Even after paying off the

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  • Embraced By The Pack   Thirty-Eight

    “I’m hungry,” I told Ford, walking toward the front door without pause.The more I thought about it, the more certain I was that I did not want to be home alone with a hunting wolf.“Let’s go get sandwiches from your friend. Elliot, right? The one with the gross PB&Js.”At that point, I was talking to myself more than him, but my nerves were starting to get to me, so I wasn’t going to question that.We stepped out on the porch, which was pretty small, but there was a hammock stretched across it. I glanced down the row of townhouses and noticed that all of the porches had hammocks hanging off to one side of their front doors.Trudging down the stairs and through the inch of snow on the ground, I glanced at the road that led away from their homes. I knew I couldn’t walk back to my dorm room, so I didn’t bother trying to make a run for it. And it wasn’t like I could outrun the wolf at my

  • Embraced By The Pack   Thirty-Seven

    “I need you to call Reed.”Tea said, holding her phone out in front of me.My eyes dipped to the device. It was a few years old and had seen better days, but Tea was kind of a cheapskate when it came to things like that. I knew she worked her ass off just to afford to eat, and I felt for her…But only a little.We’d both been raised in similar situations: with single moms struggling to pay the bills. But where her mom struggled because she was a teacher and they didn’t make shit, my mom had struggled because she’d been sick for years.She managed to work enough to keep her job, even in the worst of times, and her job provided good enough insurance to pay most of her medical bills. And when she passed away a few weeks before my high school graduation, I’d inherited the home she had paid off before I was even born.Even after paying off the

  • Embraced By The Pack   Thirty-Six

    I stared at the wolf for a long moment.Ford.It was weird to think of him as the same sexy guy I’d been checking out shamelessly for months. He came to the sandwich shop with Tea and Jesse and a couple of other guys every time Teagan and I met up, even though the guys sat at their table and talked amongst themselves while she and I chatted.We’d never greeted each other before or looked each other in the eyes—which I guess was what caused the whole “mate” thing in the first place.Maybe the way I’d been drawn to him before had been a sign of the impending wolf stuff between us, and I just hadn’t realized it.I didn’t know, but now that I’d been alone with the wolf for a few minutes, I was no longer worried he was going to attack me.“Turn around,” I told him, spinning my finger.

  • Embraced By The Pack   Thirty-Five

    The wolf kept growling and snapping his teeth at me throughout the drive, but eventually, we made it to a town I'd never heard of before.Alive, too, by some miracle.She parked in the garage of a little townhouse that I refused to admit was cute, and gave me one last forced smile before getting out of the car."He can't hurt you," she repeated, for at least the tenth time since we'd been in the vehicle."Yet he's still snapping his teeth at me," I also repeated, through gritted teeth."Only because you smell like Reed," she said like that was supposed to reassure me.Before I could reply, she hit the button to unlock the doors.One of the guys in the back got out and quickly opened my door. Ford snapped his teeth at me one last time before jumping out, and I groaned in relief at the literal weight off my legs.I wobbled a bit as I stepped out. The blond guy started to reach for me but stopped when Ford snapped at him."

  • Embraced By The Pack   Thirty-Four

    All it took was one look to end my life...Because one look is all it takes to trigger a werewolf's mate hunt.And when a wolf is hunting, he doesn't stop until his mate either dies or becomes a wolf too.Now I'm trapped in some guy's house, he's stuck in his wolf form, and there's no way out for either of us.Life as I knew it is over, but my fight to survive is only beginning.My ex-roommate’sboyfriend’s hot friend—try saying that ten times fast—was a werewolf.Red eyes. Sharp teeth.Werewolf.Mate.He’d called me “mate”.What the hell was a werewolf’s mate?“Are you still breathing?” Teagan asked, glancing at me from the driver’s seat. “Because I don’t think you’ve heard a word I’ve said.”My gaze hadn’t left the hot friend since Tea dragged me into someone’s sports car. It was a sports car

  • Embraced By The Pack   Thirty-Three

    Late that night—or maybe early the next morning—Jesse and I were snuggling in his bed. We’d talked a ton over the last few days, but mostly about dreams and childhood stories and such. We hadn’t discussed the present, which was probably not great, but it wasn’t like we were running out of time. Our wolves had paired us together, and there was no escaping that."So I know you're majoring in Software Engineering unless my research was wrong," I told him.He chuckled softly. "Your research was right.""I've never asked you about it. Why are you doing it? How did you make all the money in that damned envelope you gave me? How much longer do you have before you graduate?" I fired off questions at him.His fingers stroked my back lazily, just enjoying the feel of my skin while I enjoyed the feel of his touch."I was only two weeks into my final semester when I met you. Our packmates withdrew me from my courses, so I've still

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